CSE Undergrad News

This is a pretty amazing opportunity that you folks should consider if you are a graduating student without a full time job offer starting just yet.  Students used to have to be part of the UW Honors program, but not any more. See qualifications below.

Bonderman Travel Fellowship 2015

Deadline:   January 12, 2015, 12 noon (PST)

Dear Students:

We write to share an extraordinary opportunity for travel, discovery, and challenge. The 2015 Bonderman Travel Fellowship application is now available and we encourage you to consider applying. This fellowship offers University of Washington graduate/professional and undergraduate students (from the Seattle, Tacoma, and Bothell campuses) an opportunity to engage in independent exploration and travel abroad.

David Bonderman – the donor – wishes to give students an opportunity to experience learning and growth in new and unexpected ways. Bonderman Fellows will undertake international travel on their own for eight months, to six or more countries in two or more major regions of the world. Through solo travel the Fellows will focus on exploration and discovery, learning about the world and themselves in it.

Up to seven graduate and seven undergraduate Bonderman Fellowships will be awarded in Spring 2015. Each Fellowship carries a $20,000 award to be used only for extended solo international travel. Fellows may not conduct research, pursue an academic project, or participate in a formal program or organization.

Eligibility:

All applicants must be enrolled (“on leave” status is not considered enrolled) and in good standing at the UW during the quarter the application is due and must hold US citizenship or permanent resident status. Additionally:

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: All undergraduate students with senior credit standing and a degree application on file, AND who also meet ONE of the following criteria are eligible to apply:

• at least a 3.7 cumulative UW GPA by the start of Winter 2015; OR
• participation and good standing in the University Honors Program (Interdisciplinary, Departmental or College Honors) or in UW Tacoma’s Global Honors Program, by the start of Winter 2015. Undergraduates in one of these Honors programs DO NOT need to have 3.7 UW GPA or higher to apply, but simply must be in good standing in their respective programs, whatever that might mean.

To learn more about this extraordinary opportunity, please attend one of the information sessions listed on the website.

Applications must be submitted by 12:00 pm (noon) January 12, 2015.

Information about the fellowship, information sessions, and the application can be found at: bonderman.uw.edu

Fellowships available for CSE students:

Students who will receive a bachelor’s degree by June 2015 will be eligible for the positions. The fellowships will commence in July 2015, and they are 2 years in duration. The fellowships were previously sponsored by the Yale Child Study Center, and students can find further details at: cohenfellowship.org and simonsfellowship.org.

The training experience for the Cohen Fellowship in Developmental Social Neuroscience will primarily involve daily activities related to eye-tracking research, including operation of experimental equipment and paradigms, contact with infants and toddlers and their families, and responsibility for completing experimental protocols.

The training experience for the Simons Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience will involve developing methods for the analysis of visual scanning and eye-tracking data, computational models of visual salience, and data visualization techniques, all with the aim of advancing the understanding of autism and efforts at early diagnosis.

The training experience for the Simons Fellowship in Design Engineering will involve developing innovative design solutions to answer experimental research questions. These solutions offer an opportunity to explore human factors engineering, product prototyping, and the design of environments for neuroscience research.

Just a quick reminder that if you’d like to keep up to date on department-wide news (vs. just ugrad news) you should subscribe to the CSE News Blog.

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Dearest CSE ugrads,

In case you don’t know me (yet) from CSE 332, CSE 351, or CSE 390a, hello! I’m
Ruth Anderson, a faculty member in CSE and I hope to meet you soon! This email
is to let you know that there is a group of us (faculty/staff/students) from
CSE planning on running/walking the Dawg Dash on Sun Oct 19th.  And we want
*YOU* the CSE undergrads to join us!

http://depts.washington.edu/alumni/blogs/dawgdash/races/seattle/

If you have never done something like this before, now is your chance!!! Here
are some details:

There are two options:
5K run/walk (~3mi – ~1 loop around Green Lake)
10K run (~6mi – ~2 loops around Green Lake)

You can run/jog or walk or any combo in between.  Dogs (obviously) and
strollers are allowed.  There is even a free run for kids with the UW mascot
after the race. To be clear, this is only a “race” if you want it to be.
Really this is just an opportunity for UW faculty/students/staff to come
together to support student scholarships and have fun. Besides the fact that
THIS WILL BE CRAZY FUN AND YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS IT, your registration gets
you a T-shirt, snacks after the race, and contributes to UW scholarships.  The
race conveniently starts and finishes on campus near Red Square.  I’ll be
walking/quasi-jogging the 5K with a dog and am looking for company, others are
planning on running the 5 & 10K.

If there is interest we can try a “practice run” sometime before the 19th.
But let me know (rea@cs) if you are interested so I can include you on
plans for coordinating before and during the event!

Are you with us??!?!?

thanks!

Public Talk

Intelligence ARPA – An Overview

Dr. Peter Highnam

Director, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

4:30-5:30PM

Wed., October 1^st, 2014

Loew Hall, Room 355

Summary

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) executes high risk, high payoff research for the US Intelligence Community. IARPA Director Dr. Peter Highnam will provide an in-depth perspective on the latest advanced research and development work going on at IARPA.  He’ll also discuss IARPA’s current research priorities, preview what’s on the horizon, discuss its business model, describe the best ways to best engage in IARPA funded research, and engage in open dialogue with the audience during a Q&A session.

Bio – Dr. Peter Highnam

Dr. Peter Highnam was named IARPA Director on 30 August 2012. Dr. Highnam  joined IARPA in February 2009 as the Office Director for Incisive Analysis. Prior to IARPA, he was a senior advisor in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and then in the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). From 1999 to 2003, Dr. Highnam was a DARPA program manager with programs in electronic warfare and airborne communications. Before joining DARPA, he worked for more than a decade in applied research in industry. Dr. Highnam holds a Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award and a Department of Defense Civilian Exceptional Service Award. He is a co-inventor on three patents in commercial seismic exploration and holds a doctorate in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Join us for lunch: Entrepreneurship Info Session

Freshmen-Seniors of any major are welcome!

Wednesday, October 1
12:30-1:20
CSE 691
RSVP

Curious about the startup scene? Looking for the skills and experience you need to take your idea to the next level?  Join us next Wednesday at the Entrepreneurship Info Lunch!

Some of the things we’ll talk about include:

• Entrepreneurship Minor: for non-business majors
• Lavin Entrepreneurship Program: highly competitive, for all majors
• Build Your Own Business (BYOB): think legal, financial and entrepreneurial advice
• UW Business Plan Competition: awarded over $1.6m in prize money to date
• UW Environmental Innovation Challenge: awards $22,500 in prize money annually
• Startup UW – the club for entrepreneurs on campus

YOU bring your curiosity – we’ll bring lunch! 🙂 RSVP here.

Leslie Mabry | Assistant Director Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship
UW Foster School of Business, Dempsey Hall 227 206.685-5669 mabryl@uw.edu Connect with Buerk on Facebook